Clement’s visit
Monday, January 15, 2007
It has been a great weekend. My friend Clement, whom I haven’t seen in over a year, came to visit. We went to UVA and worked on a couple of projects together, and he recruited me to intern at Microsoft in 2005. He’s now working at the MS office in Beijing, but has been in Redmond for the past couple of months, so it was a good time for him to make a trip down to Cali.
Highlights from the weekend:
- Dinner at Hyderabad House in Palo Alto with Clement’s friend Robbie whom I met while he was interning at Google this past summer
- Lunch at Brothers Korean Restaurant in SF with Clement’s friend Helen, who stayed and hung out with us the rest of the weekend. The food was amazing; they used wood charcoal in the table grill and brought more little side dishes than I’ve ever seen at a Korean meal. They also gave us a free dish of chap chae, perhaps because we ordered so much.
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Walking around Fisherman’s Wharf, checking out Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and getting clam chowder in a sourdough bowl.
- Seeing Blood Diamond at the Metreon. Great movie, and very cool that it is doing some social good in educating the public about conflict diamonds.
- Lunch at King of Krung Siam in Mountain View with Clement’s friend Shan and his girlfriend. We ordered several dishes but the only standouts were the seafood salad and the calamari.
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Hanging out and shopping at Santana Row. We went to the lounge at Sino which has nice decor but the lychee sangria isn’t so good.
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Dinner at Maruichi, my favorite noodle place outside of Japan. I learned that they have ramen in a spicy miso broth that isn’t on the menu. It was delicious!
- A great discussion with Clement, Robbie, and Helen about a startup idea Clement is trying to recruit me on. It brought back memories of the old days at UVA when Clement and I worked on a couple of ideas together. Fun times!
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Geocaching with friends from Google. We attempted and found: Google Falls, Octal Fair, Element #2, and Lone Pine Overlook. 4/4 is pretty amazing, but we did have seven people. Great times were had.
